gabe - 154hi
mouse - 153.6
boldt - 154hi
otto - 155
a bad handoff and otto stopped at wrong finish line yielded a 7:39 for 6th place
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overall time and place was disappointing but nothing we can do about it now.
i felt amazing during the race. got the baton about 20m behind the leader. slowly closed the gap and settled into the lead pack 200m in. hung out until 150m to go and tried to get towards the front of the group. was in third coming down the homestretch about 5m behind the leader. felt really good throughout the race. ran about 1:53. i want to watch the video to see my quarter split. Although i did not run as fast as i hoped, i am still encouraged by this race.
hand off was a disaster. boldt took off and right at the last second, stevens point kid took a step blocking my path. with no time to react i found myself forced to go right through a wall of two kids. ran straight into the stevens point kid which forced me into a near complete standstill. boldt had to come back for the stick and all in all cost about 2 seconds. stevens point kid apologized after the race...but an apology wasnt going to do much to change what happened in the race. I was very upset about the whole incident but its past now and nothing can be done about it.
overall i think we all ran fairly well, it was just the horrible handoff that really hurt our time. from the tape the stick wasnt moving for 2.5 sec and in reality we lost more time than that because i would have had a running start otherwise. during the race i felt great, since we went from 3rd to 6th or 7th i was able to slowly move back up the field. i kept telling myself to stay controlled and even paced since i wasnt sure how i would feel racing after not running much for a while and so i could finish hard and not die. got us back in 3rd at the end.
i was happy with my race, my split wasnt that great but how much got added on because of the handoff im not sure. i was also happy with the teams race as well. once again take off 2 to 3 sec and put us in the better racing position that we would have been without the mishap and we are right back to where we were last year.
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